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The Time and Place to Change Personalized, Non 12 Step, Private, Help. Comfortable retreat surroundings, a home-like atmosphere coupled with respect, privacy, and understanding, will help you feel welcome, supported, and capable of finding the best solution to your substance use .

The Freedom Model for Addictions

The Freedom Model for Addictionstext is for anyone seeking an empowering way to move permanently beyond addiction and other self-limiting behaviors without the encumbrances of perpetual recovery. No other approach to addiction contains this level of straight-forward facts and logic.

The Freedom Model Private Instruction

For those who are seeking a trained professional to help them learn The Freedom Model for Addictions, we offer The Freedom Model Private Instruction online. This includes one-on-one classes with a Certified Freedom Model Presenter via videoconferencing with Skype or Facetime.

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Does poverty cause addiction?

First it is important to note that there are no external causes of addiction. There are reasons that individuals internally decide to use heavily (living in poverty might be one of them) – but there is no external factor that causes one to use beyond their control. This is important to keep in mind when looking at why people like to use substances. This topic is addressed in detail in The Freedom Model for Addictions. Here is a brief section from Chapter 5 on the research that refutes poverty as an inevitable cause for addiction:

“If we told you putting a lit match to an open tank of gasoline “causes” a fiery explosion, you could test this claim. Assuming you survived the explosion, you could do it a hundred times, and it will always result in an explosion. But if we told you that poverty causes addiction and you went to a poor neighborhood to survey 100 people, you might find somewhere between 5 and 20 people who currently fit the diagnosis of addiction. Why weren’t the other 80 people caused to use substances heavily? Then you could go to a high-priced treatment center and find nothing but people who grew up in wealth and luxury. What caused them to become addicted if not poverty? Or say we told you trauma causes addiction. If you rounded up 100 people with high trauma scores, only 15 of them might also be alcoholics. This is what the research shows. Yet people confidently claim that trauma causes addiction, as if the individual has no choice in the matter, and is simply fated to use substances relentlessly after they’ve been hurt. In fact, this response to trauma is the exception, not the rule—the other 85 are not “addicted.” Are they superheroes with magical powers somehow able to flout the law that trauma causes addiction?”

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*In cases of physical withdrawal, medical treatment and/or medical detoxification services may be necessary. Consult with a licensed physician..The Freedom Model and the Freedom Model Retreats, divisions of Baldwin Research Institute, Inc., do not provide any services that require certification by New York State’s Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. The information in this book is designed to provide information and education on the subject of substance use and human behavior. This book is not meant to be used, nor should it be used, to diagnose or treat any associated condition. The publisher and authors are not responsible for any consequences from any treatment, action, application, or preparation, by any person or to any person reading or following the information in this book. The publisher has put forth its best efforts in preparing and arranging this. The information provided herein is provided “as is” and you read and use this information at your own risk. The publisher and authors disclaim any liabilities for any loss of profit or commercial or personal damages resulting from the use of the information contained in this book.